Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a Democratic United States Senator from Massachusetts. Winning a special election to the Senate in 1962, as well as eight standard elections over the next 47 years, he was was the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family for many years, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy; the youngest brother of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (a casualty of World War II), President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy (both victims of assassination); and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.